Spaceman Spiff Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivilWar/New/Originals2/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodBits Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Very cool. I just spent like 20 minutes looking at these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Kaos Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Those are some great pictures. A few were taken within a few miles of my house. I really like the pictures of the unfinished Capital, Washington Monument, etc, etc..... Thanks for the great find! Standing along this stretch of property will give you the chills even if you have no idea what took place there. And this one is my favorite from that website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoEd Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivilWar/New/Originals2/index.html Spiff, thanks for sharing. That's an awesome collection of photos. http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivilWar/New/Originals2/pages/HarpersFerry2.html My favorite view of all time. Can't tell you how many times I've sat there and admired the view. Personally I like it even more than the view from Jefferson Rock just down the hill. It's truly amazing in the morning when the sun is just coming up and the mist is rising out of the river bottom. I miss home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanCollins Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 awesome, I recognized chain bridge immediately. Federal troops would take up the decking, on Chain bridge, at night because they were so concerned the Col. John Mosby and his "raiders" would slip into DC and capture Lincoln. http://www.angelfire.com/va3/valleywar/people/mosby2.html http://www.angelfire.com/va3/valleywar/people/mosby.html "Mosby made his name a synonym for guerrilla warfare. Even today you can purchase in Middleburg, Virginia, a map showing "Mosby's Confederacy." "The mettle of the man may be judged by the enemies he kept. Said General Joseph Hooker, "I may here state that while at Fairfax Court House my cavalry was reinforced by that of Major-General Stahel. The latter numbered 6,100 sabres. . . . The force opposed to them was Mosby's guerrillas, numbering about 200, and, if the reports of the newspapers were to be believed, this whole party was killed two or three times during the winter. From the time I took command of the army of the Potomac, there was no evidence that any force of the enemy, other than the above-named, was within 100 miles of Washington City; and yet the planks on the chain bridge were taken up at night the greater part of the winter and spring." " His ability to rapidly attack, disrupt, destroy, and humiliate the enemy and its supply lines earned him the title of the "Grey Ghost." Mosby became such an embarrassment to the Union Army and its commanders that he became one of the most hunted men in the Confederacy. Lincoln feared Mosby so much that he ordered the planking of the Chain Bridge across the Potomac in Washington be removed each night to discourage Mosby from entering the city and capturing him." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSB 21 Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Thanks Spiff, these are awsome. I'm passing this link on, via email to my non ES peeps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Definite bookmark... Thanks Spiff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adjuster919 Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Cool pics. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted November 15, 2009 Author Share Posted November 15, 2009 Yeah, I got these in an email. Pretty amazing, spent a good chunk of time looking at them tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCS Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Guess I know what I'm doing for awhile this p.m.. Great pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinfan133 Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivilWar/New/Originals2/pages/HangingCapHill.html this is a very interesting image. Imagine such a scene today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InsaneBoost Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Awesome some stuff, I love photography and history, great mixture! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt Rich Fla Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 My great grandfather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicious Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 great find, there are so many great spots to visit around the d.c. area too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHOPSkins Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Some of these are Iconic Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Thanks,nice find Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royallypwned Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Friggin sweet. I bookmarked the page so I can look at them later tonight. The Civil War is my favorite part of American History. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMS Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 awesome, I recognized chain bridge immediately. Federal troops would take up the decking, on Chain bridge, at night because they were so concerned the Col. John Mosby and his "raiders" would slip into DC and capture Lincoln.http://www.angelfire.com/va3/valleywar/people/mosby2.html http://www.angelfire.com/va3/valleywar/people/mosby.html What I found interesting about Mosby was his after the war adventures. He became a Republicans and close friend of General Grant. He supported Grants "reconstruction" policies which made him very unpopular in the South. Mosby actually had death threats for his politics from southern sympathizers. His buddy General /President Grant gave him a federal job as a land surveyer in California to keep him safely away from assasignation attempts from his former southern collegues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMS Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Any Civil war buff should visit Fairfax County's old court house on the corner of 123 and Main St. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&source=hp&q=county+courthouse+civil+war&ie=UTF8&radius=0.03&sll=38.846755,-77.306276&sspn=0.000683,0.000931&filter=0&rq=1&ev=p&hq=county+courthouse+civil+war&hnear=&ll=38.846288,-77.306738&spn=0,359.999069&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=38.846311,-77.306838&panoid=txRC7T_bazLy1DK03eh7iw&cbp=12,199.5,,0,7.76 The site of the fist civil war casualty due to enemy action. The first confederate soldier to be killed by a Union Soldier died when Union troops tried to Take the county seat of Fairfax Virgnia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnyderShrugged Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Thanks for posting! I'm a big fan of all things civil war. I recently read that there was a huge push by Lincolns admin to destroy any pictures of Union dead. That's why almost all pics of dead soldiers today are of confederate dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.C.O.L.B. Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Thanks Spiff. I'm a HUGE history nerd so I love stuff like this. Never get tired of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 I love this kinda stuff, but didn't need to see the exploded body of the Federal soldier. Yuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakkhim Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 http://www.shorpy.com has many fantastic photos of the Civil War. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baculus Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivilWar/New/Originals2/index.html Thanks for posting these, SS. I am doing a fair amount of research on the War Between the States, and I am always fascinated by the visual record of the conflict. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baculus Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 What I found interesting about Mosby was his after the war adventures. He became a Republicans and close friend of General Grant. He supported Grants "reconstruction" policies which made him very unpopular in the South. Mosby actually had death threats for his politics from southern sympathizers. His buddy General /President Grant gave him a federal job as a land surveyer in California to keep him safely away from assasignation attempts from his former southern collegues. That is a "hidden" part of Reconstruction period history that is not well-known: The amount of political assassinations that took place against abolitionists, free blacks, and Republicans. Most people also don't realize that the government of Wilmington, NC, was overthrown by pro-secessionist forces and racialists in 1898. A coup in which the US government did nothing in response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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